OneBC’s Dallas Brodie Sues Fired Staffer over Online Posts

OneBC Leader Dallas Brodie has filed a lawsuit accusing fired party staff person Othman Mekhloufi of defaming her in social media posts.

“Beginning or about February of 2026 and continuing to the present, Mekhloufi engaged in a sustained campaign of online defamation directed at Brodie,” says the notice of claim filed Monday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Mekhloufi’s statements, it says, “have caused and continue to cause injury, loss and damage to the plaintiff, and were deliberately calculated by the defendant to expose the plaintiff to contempt, ridicule and hatred, and to cause other persons to shun or avoid the plaintiff, and to lower the plaintiff’s reputation in the eyes of right thinking members of the community, all of which has in fact occurred.”

Mekhloufi hasn’t filed a response to the lawsuit and none of Brodie’s claims have been tested or proven in court.

“Ms. Brodie is spiralling, suing people for calling her crazy on the internet,” Mekhloufi said in an email responding to questions from The Tyee. “I’m sympathetic to her situation and I hope she receives the help she needs.”

The lawyer acting for Brodie, Daniel Reid with the firm Harper Grey, declined to comment on Mekhloufi’s response.

“MLA Brodie intends to deal with this matter in the courts, and looks forward to doing so,” he said. “As this matter is now the subject of litigation, neither our office nor MLA Brodie will be making further comment at this time.”

Brodie was first elected in October 2024 to represent Vancouver-Quilchena in the B.C. legislature as a Conservative.

She was removed from the Conservative caucus less than five months after the election by then-leader John Rustad. He explained Brodie’s removal was “a result of her decision to publicly mock and belittle testimony from former residential school students, including by mimicking individuals recounting stories of abuses — including child sex abuse.”

After parting with the Conservatives, Brodie formed OneBC with Tara Armstrong, the MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, but the pair soon fell out over the caucus’s employment of Mekhloufi.

According to Brodie’s court filing, “Mekhloufi was fired as a staffer for OneBC in December of 2025 as a result of online postings he authored which expressed Neo-Nazi, white-nationalist and antisemitic content.”

In a separate lawsuit stemming from that time and filed in the B.C. Supreme Court earlier in the summer, Brodie’s former chief of staff Tim Thielmann is suing her for wrongful dismissal.

Thielmann, who supported keeping Mekhloufi on staff, The Tyee reported , was fired on Dec. 12. His court filing says he was given no reason for his dismissal and that Brodie has “publicly associated the Plaintiff’s dismissal with her purported opposition to ‘neo-Nazi’ and ‘antisemitic’ ideologies.”

Brodie’s lawsuit against Mekhloufi quotes seven of Mekhloufi’s posts on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, where his posts are public and he has more than 6,000 followers. It says he made similar statements in other online posts, emails, text messages, conversations and social media messages.